QUIL 123: Quileute Language III

Program
Credits 5
Quarter Offered
Spring
Distribution List
Humanities,
Academic Elective

Builds grammatically to "intentive" (future) tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Prerequisites

QUIL 122 or instructor permission

  • Discuss how Spirit World considerations created a distinctive Intentive tense in Quileute rather than a Future tense. Discuss the intentive marker and how it's used to signal wishes, hopes, goals, or actions.
  • Compare texts and charts to aid understanding, speaking, reading, listening, or writing in Quileute.
  • Increase descriptive and lead word vocabulary: auxiliary verbs, color, size, emotions, locations, question words, three sets of object pronouns, and situational dialogues.